![]() These themes include free will and fate, reality and art, the absurdity of life, the difficulty of making meaningful communication, and the inevitability of death,įor most of the play, the action takes place backstage, in the wings of a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with the action of both plays coinciding now and then. ![]() ![]() Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two minor characters from Hamlet, but Stoppard’s play sees this reversed, with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern becoming the main characters and the other, more central, Hamlet characters being reduced to minor roles.īy turning Hamlet on its head, Stoppard creates an absurdist play that examines existentialist themes that were contemporary when the play was written and first performed in the 1960s, and that remain relevant in today’s theatre. The title of this Tom Stoppard play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, is taken from the final scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. ![]()
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